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An evening with Five Leaves' Pamphleteers at Nottingham Poetry Festival

Monday, 16th June, 2025    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A free event Five of the Five Leaves Poetry Pamphlet authors will read from their work. Come and join us for a friendly and informal [...]

It Used to Be Witches: under the spell of queer cinema, with author Ryan Gilbey - SORRY CANCELLED

Monday, 16th June, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.50 - £20.00
Sorry, cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. We have notified all those who booked.   An authoritative celebration of the past, present and future [...]

Fiction Book Group read Mouthing by Orla Mackey

Wednesday, 18th June, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the [...]

Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line with Elizabeth Lovatt

Thursday, 19th June, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.50 - £20.00
Join Five Leaves in collaboration with Notts Queer History Archive, for an evening with author Elizabeth Lovatt and a host of local lesbians. From line [...]

Nottingham Poetry Festival Presents: Jamie Thrasivoulou- Feral + QnA

Friday, 20th June, 2025    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Jamie Thrasivoulou is an award-winning writer, poet, and educator. He’s also the lyricist in the band Kez. In 2019 he won the Saboteur award for [...]

Nottingham Poetry Fest Presents: Michael Pedersen – Muckle Flugga

Saturday, 21st June, 2025    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Poetry ambassador for independent bookshop week, Michael Pedersen joins us. Cheers, duck. A prize-winning author, the Edinburgh Makar / Poet Laureate and Writer in Residence [...]

Midsummer reading with Dandelions Poetry and Cathy Grindrod

Sunday, 22nd June, 2025    
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
£3.00 - £4.50
Dandelions Poetry is back at Five Leaves for our special midsummer reading We are very pleased to have Cathy Grindrod as our featured poet. We [...]

Irish Book Group reads Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Our book groups are open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the [...]

Jen Calleja on translation

Tuesday, 24th June, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.50 - £12.99
Jen Calleja’s new non-fiction book is  Fair: The Life-Art of Translation. Fair is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of [...]

One Woman Walks Europe, with Ursula Martin

Monday, 7th July, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£3.00 - £4.50
Ursula Martin never thought she would walk 3,700 miles around Wales, but following a cancer diagnosis it seemed like the only reasonable thing to do. [...]
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